Ah, the Designer part is now a problem.
You could try using Pacifist to manually extract the needed parts from the Qt
installer, 4.8 still uses Apple's installer packaging (Qt5 started using their
own packaging mechanism, bleh), and either skip the /usr/* stuff or put it
somewhere else. I don't know if Designer uses them, all I see is direct links
to the Qt frameworks, but it might also need the executables, which would be a
problem.
Another thing that might be a problem, regardless on how/if you install Qt, is
if Designer loads or needs any Qt plugins - QGIS (Mac) currently ignores its
qt.conf and tries to load the /Developer plugins and crashes, so you'd have to
do work in Designer, quit, rename the plugins folder so QGIS doesn't see it,
run QGIS to test your plugin, quit, rename plugins back, ...
> On Oct 18, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Chris Nicholas
> wrote:
>
> yeah; lots of interesting sandboxing got introduced in El Cap; etc. Have yet
> to upgrade to Sierra, but I hear it’s reasonably painless… at least from a
> user’s perspective.
>
> I want to do a plugin, and I need to do GUI design and layout and assign
> event signals and slots, etc, and couldn’t find Qt designer… that’s when I
> tried to install that .dmg and got the message I sent...
>
> but… now that I look more closely, I see you have indeed built the tools
> needed for at least compiling a design (pyrcc4 and pyuic4), that I
> didn’t have on my PATH, in:
> /Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/bin (and of course, a WHOLE lot of
> other very interesting items there…)
>
> :-)
>
> again, thanks for all your work.
>
> Chris
>
>
>> On Oct 18, 2016, at 10:38 AM, William Kyngesburye
>> wrote:
>>
>> Interesting. I suspect it has something to do with installing a few items
>> in /usr/* (instead of /usr/local/*). With SIP in El Capitan it may fail to
>> install those bits (or they will install but will be blocked from running),
>> which include all the executables that are needed during compilation of
>> QGIS. Worst case is that installing those bits will block your system from
>> booting (not fatal or "damaging", but you'd have to boot in safe mode to
>> delete them).
>>
>> If you really want to compile your own, you could try Homebrew.
>>
>> Is there something missing from my QGIS package that your plugin needs?
>> (No, I haven't "done" Qt, I just bundle their Qt binaries in QGIS)
>>
>>> On Oct 18, 2016, at 11:59 AM, Chris Nicholas
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> first and foremost. THANK YOU for all those years of building QGIS and
>>> supporting libs on MAC…
>>> :-]
>>>
>>> hit this, and just went with my VirtualBox/Ubuntu 16 and things are working
>>> great there…
>>> didn’t realize you had done the whole Qt Designer, etc frameworks.. bravo!
>>>
>>> attached is the msg I got trying to install the 4.8 dmg from
>>> http://download.qt.io/archive/ , and just said “blah…"
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
On Oct 17, 2016, at 6:30 PM, William Kyngesburye
wrote:
Are you using my package or trying to compile from source?
My package has everything needed in the app - Qt4 & PyQt4.
QGIS 2 is not completely ready for Qt5, so yes you need to use Qt4. Does
the Qt4 installer refuse to install on your system, or just give a
warning? I've never heard of it refusing to install. It should still
work as long as you use a system SDK. I compile QGIS on Yosemite, but
using an old Mt Lion SDK.
> On Oct 17, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Chris Nicholas
> wrote:
>
> loaded up QGIS 2.14 ‘Essen’ got all psyched to dive in and do a plugin,
> and seem to be hitting a brick wall…
>
> From what I understand, you must use PyQt4, unless you compile EVERYTHING
> from source with Qt5 …
>
> soo… thought I would just use an older Qt version… WRONG ! the installer
> says it is incompatible with this version of OS X ..
>
> so… thought I would compile the Qt4 sources from scratch … WRONG! as
> per:
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-48079
>
> so…. um …. am I outta luck?
>
> advice/condolences/RTFMs welcomed
>
> thanks in advance!
> Chris
>
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>>>
>>
>> -
>> William Kyngesburye
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>
>> "The beast is actively interested only in now, and, as it is always now and
>> always shall be, there is an eternity of time for the accomplishment of
>> objects."
>>
>> - the wisdom of Tarzan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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